Results of work have been summarized on use some morphofunclional indices at fish health control in aquaculture. Their helps efficiently and intravitally estimate reject sick specimen having a low immune status. It has revealed that the most important but labour-intensive are hematological ones which can be changeable deseases various nature may used appraisal stress-response. Indices hemoglobi...

OBJECTIVES To conduct a systematic review of studies reporting on the development or validation of comorbidity indices using administrative health data and compare their ability to predict outcomes related to comorbidity (ie, construct validity). STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING We conducted a comprehensive literature search of MEDLINE and EMBASE, until September 2012. After title and abstract screen...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the responsiveness of generic and mapped preference-based measures based on the anchor of global change in health condition of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING A baseline sample of 333 Chinese CRC patients was recruited between September 2009 and July 2010 and was surveyed prospectively at 6-month follow-up. Preference-based indices were derive...

Background Thermal component of the atmospheric environment is an important issue which is related to human's health. Thermal environment includes both heat exchange conditions (stress) and the physiological response (strain). The aim of this study was to measure the association of heat indices (PSI, HSI, Humidex) especially subjective one (STI) with some physiological parameters (Blood pressur...

This study aimed to determine the associations between socio-demographic factors, maternal health knowledge and husband domestic support and last pregnancy problems among reproductive age women (aged 15-49 years) in Bahuni, Morang, Nepal. Data were collected during February and March 2010 from 144 women who had at least one child <5 years old. The women completed a questionnaire designed to eli...

BACKGROUND previously, frailty indices were constructed using mostly subjective health measures. The reporting error in this type of measure can have implications on the robustness of frailty findings. OBJECTIVE to examine whether frailty assessment differs when we construct frailty indices using solely self-reported or test-based health measures. DESIGN secondary analysis of data from The ...

The concentration index, being focused on the socioeconomic dimension of health inequality and overlooking aversion to pure health inequality, can produce ethically contestable rankings of health distributions. A health transfer from a sicker but richer individual to healthier but poorer individual will decrease the concentration index. This paper presents a new class of health inequality indic...